We began our Order of Operations unit today in class. Students made a flip book outlining the steps & procedures utilized in solving expressions in the correct order. On Thursday, we will apply the procedures in the flipbook to expressions to find their value.
NO HOMEWORK FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 2nd
(and yes 1st and 2nd period folks, I know I assigned you all Skills Practice #1-12, but you can have the option of NOT doing it as we will work on it during class tomorrow as a whole group!)
Students began learning about base numbers & exponents today in math. Students! Please remember to write your answers to tonight’s homework in exponential form! And you DO NOT have to find the final value of the expression!
TEXTBOOK, PG. 64, #13-21
Students began dividing decimals by decimals today in class. Students! Please remember to move the decimals in the divisor enough places to make it a whole number! Then move the decimal in the dividend the same number of places as well! Once that’s done, now you are ready to divide!
Remember to show all your work to receive full credit!!
Homework for tonight will be to complete the classwork we started in class. Students were to complete #1-8 in class and #9-18 for homework. Remember: you MUST show your work to receive full credit!
No homework tonight! Students finished presenting their Collins Writing Activity today in class and I must say I was very impressed with their work!
Enjoy your Monday evening!
In an effort to incorporate writing into our math class, students completed an activity today in class which required them to not only show their proficiency in computing an answer, an additional component to the task was to explain how they arrived at their answer. I encouraged students not to be shy explaining their answers and that the answers did not have to be long and drawn out. I simply want students to explain, step by step, their thinking as they completed the problem.
Students were given an additional word problem to complete as tonight’s homework.
Our first big test will be tomorrow, Friday the 13th! Students reviewed all skills we have covered since the first week of school. Those skills include multiplying multi-digit numbers, long division, place value, rounding, adding & subtracting decimals.
Homework for Thursday night, September 12th………complete Study Guide (front & back) to prepare for tomorrow’s test!
Study Guide for Test HW for 9-12-2013 (front)
Study Guide for Test HW for 9-12-2013 (back)
Blue Team students continued their study of adding & subtracting decimals with a classwork/homework assignment, “Adding & Subtracting Decimals”. Students must show their work, especially how they line up the decimals when setting up the problem.
Adding & Subtracting Decimals HW for 9-11-2013
We will have our first test of the nine weeks this Friday, September 13th. The skills covered on the test include multiplying, long division (including adding a decimal & zero to the dividend), place value, rounding, as well as adding & subtracting decimals. A study guide will be given to students in class tomorrow in order to prepare for the test on Friday!